A21 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 22 October 1997 at 07:15 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells at 07:15 on Wednesday 22 October 1997. The 28-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 1997
- Wednesday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10008, longitude 0.39178, in the TN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lamberhurst.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746WL01163
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2100
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2000.
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 11 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200046WL32524
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 25 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199746WL00515
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 20 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199846WL06891
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 14 March 2002
28 m awayRef 200246WL55610
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 5 May 1997
32 m awayRef 199746WL31461
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 26 May 2000
32 m awayRef 200046WL23589
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199746WL01163 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tunbridge Wells road accident statistics for 1997.